Cap. 41 Art. 13Making or repairing stills without a licence.

(1) No person shall make, or repair, or keep for sale, or sell any still or any part thereof without first obtaining a licence for so doing from the Comptroller.

(2) Such licence shall expire on the 31st December of the year in which it takes effect.

(3) The Comptroller may require any person applying for such licence to state his name and abode and the situation of the place where he carries on his trade, and to furnish such other particulars as the Comptroller may deem fit to require.

(4) The Comptroller may refuse to give such licence without assigning any reason for his refusal.

(5) Every person to whom such licence is granted shall keep a book in which he shall enter the following particulars:

(a) the name and address of any person to or for whom any still or part of a still has been sold, made or repaired;

(b) the place where such still or part of a still has been sold, made or repaired;

(c) the time at which such still or part of a still was delivered to the person to, or for whom it was sold, made or repaired; and

(d) the capacity of such still.

(6) Such book shall, at all reasonable times, be open to inspection by any officer.

(7) The provisions of this article shall not apply to any person engaged by a distiller to make any alterations or repairs to or in any still lawfully kept by such distiller.

worked in the manner set out in the Schedule hereto, and shall be so constructed that the spirit distilled shall be received in a locked receiver, to which access shall not be obtainable except in the presence of the proper officer.

(2) Every cock or valve kept or used by a distiller must, when the Comptroller so requires, be furnished with a fastening provided by the distiller and approved by the Comptroller, and with a revenue lock, provided by the Comptroller at the expense of the distiller, and such fastening and lock must be affixed to the satisfaction of the proper officer.

(3) No spirit run into the spirit receiver may be removed therefrom without the permission of the proper officer.

(4) Except in the presence of the proper officer, access may not be had to the end of the worm of the still, or to any spirit, from the time of the distillation thereof until it is taken account of in the receiver by the proper officer.

(5) The key of every test case and spirit receiver shall be kept by the proper officer, who alone shall open such test case and receiver. The proper officer shall enter in the distillery record book the quantity of spirits at 57° Gay Lussac contained in such receiver and after such entry the spirits shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, be at the disposal of the distiller.